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I NlTED STATES JAMES V. XVESTON, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO EZRA B. VESTON,

' OF SAME PLACE.

PAIL, TUB, OR BARREL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 304,478, dated September 2, 1884.

Application filed January 12, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J AMES W. Wnsron, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pails, Tubs, Barrels, and other Like Receptacles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to close or headed pails, tubs, and barrels, or other like receptacles in which separated removable head-sec tions are used and combined with a tapering key or wedge arranged to enter through an opening in the one side of the chine and to engage with the body of the receptacle on its opposite side, and constructed to close the opening between the head-sections and to force and hold them to their places in the croze of the barrel and the invention consists in a combination,with said head-sections and key, of a removable support or follower, substantially as hereinafter described, and arranged to close the opening between the adjacent headsections of the separated head-sections and to receive the key on or over it.

It also comprises a special construction of said follower with a sampling hole and plug for sampling the contents of the vessel by simply withdrawing the key which secures the head.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a plan view of a pail with its head closed and secured in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same with the head-sections and their securing-key removed. Fig. 3 is a section on the line w x in Fig. 1; Fig. i a section on the line 3 y in Fig. l; and Fig. 5 is a similar section to Fig. 4, but showing a modified construction of the key and fit of it within or through the pail.

A indicates the body of a pail, or it might be any other receptacle designed to have an air-tight or close-fitting head within it. The head is composed, mainly, of opposite side sections, 13 B, which fit within the usual groove or croze, b, and when adjusted to their places leave a tapering space, a, between them, and the adjacent margins of which form. the walls of a dovetail-shaped opening extending wholly across the head. I

G O is a support or follower arranged immediately beneath the head-sections B B and 5 5 held in position eitherby being let into recesses in the sides of "the vessel beneath the chine Z) and croze b, or in any other suitable manner that will admit of said support or follower being lifted out when required to fill or empty the pail or vessel. Said support or follower is composed, mainly, of a cross bridge piece or strip, 0, of a sufficient width to rather more than close the tapering space 0 between the headsections B B and of side struts or braces, O C. These struts or bracesO G are rabbeted at their'inner ends into the sides of the bridge piece or strip 0, as shown in Fig. 2. Said struts or braces and bridgepiece may be sprung to their places in the croze of the barrel or receptacle.

D is a tapering key or wedge, of a length sufficient to extend wholly across the pail or vessel and of a shape transversely corresponding with the tapering dovetail space 0 between the head-sections B B. This key is slid to its place through an opening inthe one side of the chine b, which opening forms an extension of the space 0, and passing over the head-closing portion 0 of the follower may So either enter at its reduced end the croze b on the other side of the vessel orpass through an opening in said side. In Figs. land 4 it is represented as fitting at its smaller end within the croze, and of sufficient thickness at its Said key, too, in Fig. 5 is made of reduced 5 thickness at its buttend, so that the opening through which it is entered need not extend much above or beyond the croze,which leaves the outer hoop, t, of the pail or vessel intact,

and so that said hoop need not be removed when opening the head, which either it would be necessary to do or to stop the hoop short of In Fig. 5 said key passes 0 the key when of thicker construction at its butt-end, as in Figs. 1 and 4.

The support 0 0 not only forms a follower for the head-sections B B when fitting them to their places, and prevents all possibility of their falling into the interior of the pail or vessel, but it also constitutes a follower or guiding-base for the key D. Said support or follower also serves to stiffen the pail or vessel, and the whole combination forms a very perfeet, strong, and air-tight or close-fitting head, easily opened on withdrawing the key D, and as easily or rapidly closed again. Inthe portion 0 of the support or follower is a samlike receptacle, and an intermediate tapering key or wedge, D, arranged to enter through an opening in the chine 011 the one side of the vessel, and to engage with the other side thereof, of a removable support or follower constructed to close the opening between the adjacent edges of the separated head-sections, and to receive the key on or over it, essentially as described.

2. The removable head support or follower composed of a cross bridge piece or strip, C,

and side struts or braces, O C, in combination with the tapering key or wedge D'and Vitn esses:

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